Is Bolt serious " We know from Project Veritas that Clinton supporters tried to incite violence at Trump rallies. The media downplays it. Project Veritas is run by James O'Keefe " Bolt's kind of guy
"O'Keefe gained support from conservative media and interest groups. In 2009, Andrew Breitbart commissioned him for the option to publish new videos exclusively on . In June 2010, O'Keefe formed a organization, Project Veritas, with the stated mission to "investigate and expose corruption, dishonesty, self-dealing, waste, fraud and other misconduct."
Sounds good but: Yes he's Bolt's kind of media man
" James O’Keefe, a journalist whose reputation has been marred by proof
that he edited videos in 2009 and 2011 to distort the words and actions
of his subjects."
He produces secretly recorded undercover audio and video encounters,
some selectively edited to imply its subjects said things they did not,
with figures and workers in academic, governmental and social service
organizations, purportedly showing abusive or alleged illegal behavior
by representatives of those organizations. He gained national attention
for his video recordings of workers at ACORN offices in 2009, his arrest and guilty plea in 2010 for entering the federal office of then-U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) under false pretenses, and the release of videos of conversations with two high-ranking, now former, NPR executives in 2011.
When his videos of ACORN workers allegedly aiding a couple in criminal planning hit the 24-hour cable news cycle, the U.S. Congress
quickly voted to freeze funds for the non-profit. The national
controversy resulted in the non-profit also losing most private funding
before investigations of the videos were conducted. In March 2010, ACORN
was close to bankruptcy and had to close or rename most of its offices.[3] Shortly after, the California State Attorney General's Office and the US Government Accountability Office
released their related investigative reports. The Attorney General's
Office found that O'Keefe had misrepresented the actions of ACORN
workers and that the workers had not committed illegal actions. A
preliminary probe by the GAO found that ACORN had managed its federal funds appropriately.[4][5]
One of the fired ACORN workers sued O'Keefe for invasion of privacy;
OKeefe issued an apology and agreed to pay $100,000 in a settlement.
Save the children, not the culture
27 Oct Yes Bolt the advocate of individualism cries out "blame the Culture and save the children" the same cry we have heard for 220 years. History has shown however that the dysfunction the indigenous Australians find them selves in is their interface with a White Western and Racist Culture since the invasion of their country. History has no part in Andrew Bolt's Australia nor does the evolution of the Culture of poverty heaped on many Australians but more so Indigenous people by the institutionalized and systemic enforced racism applied. Bolt's attitude that denys any self examination of colonialism is as racist now as it was the first days of landing.
Nobody is denying a problem exists but it's not just a problem of just one Culture it's a problem of our Culture and how and why we have arrived at the point we are today. Individual cases do need attending to but more so does the systemic poverty joblessness health and other problems people have had enforced on them and other people of varying colors. Australia is becoming more indigenised not because of color but because of unattended to poverty. Just explore the streets of Melbourne.
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